Category : Middle East

Cii Radio| Ayesha Ismail| 13 February 2018| 27 Jumadul Ula 1439
Sixty per cent of Palestinian children who were arrested by Israeli occupation forces were verbally, physically or psychologically tortured, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club (PPC) revealed yesterday.
In a statement, the PPC ...

Cii Radio| Ayesha Ismail| 13 February 2018| 27 Jumadul Ula 1439
Syrian regime warplanes killed six civilians, including two children and a woman, in a new attack on eastern Ghouta near the capital Damascus.
Sources in the Syrian Civil Defence teams, also ...

Cii Radio| Ayesha Ismail| 13 February 2018| 27 Jumadul Ula 1439
A Saudi cleric has come under fire on social media over a ruling that women do not have to wear the loose-fitting abaya robe, prompting a clarification from the sheikh.
Sheikh ...

Cii Radio| Ayesha Ismail| 12 February 2018| 25 Jumadul Ula 1439
More than 40 largely unknown archaeological and historical sites in Makkah could play a major part in Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 plan to diversify the economy, according to experts.
The sites ...

Cii Radio| Ayesha Ismail| 12 February 2018| 25 Jumadul Ula 1439
Riyadh’s Ritz-Carlton Hotel reopened on Sunday, more than three months after it was converted into a gilded prison for members of Saudi Arabia’s business and political elite detained in an ...

Cii Radio| Ayesha Ismail| 09 February 2018| 22 Jumadul Ula 1439
Labour’s Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry has written to UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson to urge pressure on Israel over the military detention of Palestinian children.
In a letter that the ...

Cii Radio| Ayesha Ismail| 09 February 2018| 22 Jumadul Ula 1439
The General Presidency for the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques in Saudi Arabia has set aside special areas in the Grand Mosque in Makkah for use by people with ...

Cii Radio| Ayesha Ismail| 09 February 2018| 22 Jumadul Ula 1439
At the beginning of each month, Muzouza Abu Rayyash usually shops at the supermarket next to her house in Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood.
But this month, she had to cancel ...